TRAN, JOHN wrote: > I apologize I wasn't clearer about the preseed but I am injecting > that into the ISO file so I don't need to get that over tftp.
Good! That definitely makes that part easier. And then there are also no restrictions about what can be preseeded. > I need the network connectivity for the rest of the install. I > don't have control of the network, I just know that I need to vlan > tag a network interface otherwise I won't be able to connect to the > default gateway. In my case the vlan is logical therefore the nic > *must* be vlan tagged (using vconfig) otherwise I won't be able to > get on the correct network. Is there a way to do that using a > netinstall iso? The debian-installer does not have native support for configuring a local VLAN interface in the installer. (The debian-installer only recently acquired the ability to use encrypted wifi.) It basically just DHCP's an address and then uses it. But if you are using a preseed then you should be able to include the preseed commands stuffed into either "late_command" or "early_command" or possibly another place to reconfigure the interface for a particular vlan. The *_command routines allow you to do whatever you need to do there. Now it is time for editorial comments. :-) This doesn't seem to be a reasonable use of vlans to me. I think someone has pushed a feature from the routing level down too low in the stack to the client user side of things. I don't know the overall target that you are trying to accomplish but if I were doing this I would create a router machine with two network interfaces. I would set up the first interface for the vlan. Then I would install shorewall and set up NAT and dhcp on the other network card for a local private subnet. I would then install there on the private subnet. Then the new system being installed upon would not need to know anything about any of the upstream vlan configuration. After installation then I would install the vlan package and configure the system for the target network and move it to its final destination. Or if there were many identical machines then you could image the disk and just copy the disk image around. That is much more fragile. But with hand-holding it might bypass some of your vlan problems. Bob
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